Those who win re-election can claim what would seem to be an invaluable asset: Four years of on-the-job training for one of the most demanding posts in the world. Yet the second terms of modern presidents typically are remembered for assorted catastrophes. Richard Nixon resigned. Ronald Reagan became enmeshed in the Iran-contra scandal. Bill Clinton was impeached. George W. Bush was buffeted first by Katrina and then by a cascading financial crisis.

The difference here, of course, is that no president in history has had the press shield him the way this one does. Even when things are falling apart around him it is never reported as such. The good money is on any looming second term curse debacles dutifully being blamed on Republicans by the main stream media.

Here’s the laugh line:

As President Obama prepares for next week’s inauguration, he acknowledges the cautionary history. “I’m more than familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second terms,” he told reporters at a White House news conference after his re-election.

Given his penchant for Executive Orders, one presumes he’s studied presidential overreach because he wants to take it to the next level.

Stephen Kruiser is a professional comedian and writer who has also been a conservative political activist for over two decades. A co-founder of the first Los Angeles Tea Party, Kruiser often speaks to grassroots groups around America and has had the great honor of traveling around the world entertaining U.S. troops.

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Jefferson

I’ll admit the press has been protecting Obama and probably will continue to do so but I wouldn’t count on them to be quite as helpful as they were in his first term. They got him elected, they got him re-elected. Unless they want Obama as the first emperor of the United States, what more can they do for him? Now that he’s gotten re-elected, now that he can’t run again, they may hold his feet to the fire a little more.